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			<h1>Don&apos;t vote for Ron Wyden</h1>
			<p>Day 00047: <time>Thursday, 2015 April 23</time></p>
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	Our idiotic Senate Finance Committee just voted to enact the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which will keep the public in the dark about corporate trade agreements.
	This is not acceptable.
	My own state&apos;s Ron Wyden was one of the people to vote &quot;yes&quot;.
	As a constituent, I&apos;ve written him a letter of disapproval in hopes that he revises his vote.
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	I forgot to check my mail last night before turning in.
	Josh Woodward fixed the song download, so now lyrics are included in the track.
	I half expected him to say it was an instrumental piece, but in that case, why would lyrics be included on the page? As I hoped, it was just a simple upload mistake, and it&apos;s fixed now.
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	It seems a group of homophobes set up an <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/21/1379161/-PA-High-School-Students-Organize-Anti-Gay-Day">Anti-Gay Day</a>.
	Come on, people.
	Why do you care what other people want to do do in their own bedrooms? It&apos;s not like the gays are trying to force these people to be gay with them.
	If someone was trying to get me to have gay sex with them, I would be opposed to that.
	Then again, if someone was trying to get me to have straight sex with them, I&apos;d be opposed to that as well.
	But if gay people want to be gay with other gay people, who is really hurt by that? No one.
	It&apos;s not even like being gay is a choice.
	If they were to choose to pretend not to be gay, they likely wouldn&apos;t find happiness.
	What right do these people have to deny gay people happiness?
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	I just learned that I may have a mild case of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia">trypophobia</a>.
	I didn&apos;t even know there was a word for that.
	From the Wikipedia article, is seems that many people have it way worse than I do, as patterns of holes in just about any object seem to be able to trigger the creeped-out feeling and I only really have this happen if I think the object is animal flesh of some sort.
	For example, the babies embedded in a surinam toad&apos;s back totally weird me out, but honeycomb has no effect on me.
	Furthermore, I only cringe a bit, but it sounds like some people even have panic attacks.
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	I finally added the cover art to the Josh Woodward albums that were missing it.
	On his website, Josh has both thumbnail images and full-size images of his album covers.
	I chose the thumbnails because on my monitor, they looked slightly larger than what I needed.
	The main place the covers show up is on the album select screen, where they are laid out in rows of two.
	However, once I had the thumbnails on my mobile, I found the images were both blurry and pixelated due to being smaller than I had thought.
	Not only that, but I realized that the artwork also shows up filling most of the screen in some cases.
	I wouldn&apos;t really mind, but the blurry images stand out next to all the clear, crisp album covers from other artists (and Josh&apos;s &quot;Ashes&quot; and &quot;The Wake&quot; albums which, having their artwork embedded in the files, are also clear and crisp).
	I switched to the full-size album covers, which look much nicer.
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	I stumbled upon a free, zero knowledge, encrypted, cloud-based password manager and &quot;e-wallet&quot; called <a href="https://encryptr.org/">Encryptr</a>.
	If my understanding is correct, both the server and client are free, so I could run my own server instance if I got the client running.
	The Android client seems to be only on Google Play though, putting it out of reach for the time being.
	If I ever get my build environment functioning, I could build the client myself, but for the time being, that isn&apos;t an option.
	Speaking of which, I should try again to get the Replicant build environment to work at some point.
	It seems there is desire to get Encryptr added to <a href="https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/encryptr/">F-Droid</a>, but due to the funky build process, there&apos;s been a snag.
	I can&apos;t help be be reminded of the <a href="https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/eff-alerts/"><abbr title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">EFF</abbr> Alerts</a> application build issue.
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	It seems that running <code>setxkbmap gb</code> only fixes KeePassX until the next reboot, so it should be added to ~/.bash_aliases or somewhere else that will be run on login.
	Actually, now that I think about it, ~/.bash_aliases might not be run until you open a command prompt.
	I&apos;ll have to keep an eye out next time I reboot to be sure.
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